Boeing Unveils New International F-15 Configuration - the F-15SE
Mar 17 12:30 PM US/Eastern
ST. LOUIS, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) today in St. Louis unveiled the F-15 Silent Eagle (F-15SE), a new F-15 configuration designed to meet the future needs of international customers.
"The F-15 Silent Eagle is designed to meet our international customers' anticipated need for cost-effective stealth technologies, as well as for large and diverse weapons payloads," said Mark Bass, F-15 Program vice president for Boeing.
"The innovative Silent Eagle is a balanced, affordable approach designed to meet future survivability needs."
Improvements in stealth include coatings and treatments on the aircraft. With the added advantage of redesigned conformal fuel tanks (CFTs) that allow for internal weapons carriage, the Silent Eagle becomes a very attractive fighter for Boeing's international customers.
Depending on the specific mission, the customer can use the CFTs that are designed for internal carriage or change back to the traditional CFTs for optimum fuel capacity and external weapons carriage. The Silent Eagle will be able to internally carry air-to-air missiles such as the AIM-9 and AIM-120 and air-to-ground weapons such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and Small Diameter Bomb (SDB).
The standard weapons load used on current versions of the F-15 is available with the traditional CFTs installed.
The aircraft's canted vertical tails improve aerodynamic efficiency, provide lift, and reduce airframe weight. Another aerodynamic improvement is the Digital Flight Control System, which improves the aircraft's reliability and reduces airframe weight.
Survivability improvements include a BAES Digital Electronic Warfare System (DEWS) working in concert with the Raytheon Advanced Electronic Scanning Array (AESA) radar.
Boeing has completed a conceptual prototype of the CFT internal-carriage concept, and plans to flight-test a prototype by the first quarter of 2010, including a live missile launch.
The design, development, and test of this internal carriage system are available as a collaborative project with an international aerospace partner.
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Boeing unveils new international F-15 configuration
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I envision that if THAT was to happen, there would be another political battle like the current KC-X competition has turned in to....I dunno, I wouldn't rule it out once the final limit of F-22s they can have is reached. My guess is F-15SEs will be cheaper than F-35s.
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From AF Daily Report 19 Mar 09
Stirring the Tacair Soup: Boeing's new F-15SE design, the Silent Eagle, which the company unveiled on Tuesday in St. Louis, is ostensibly being marketed to current foreign users of the F-15, such as Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and South Korea, which have expressed a desire for stealth capability. But it could also complicate the debate in the US over tacair modernization, which Pentagon officials supposedly were in the final stages of resolving as they worked through the Fiscal 2010 budget process. Boeing doesn't claim the F-15SE is the equal of the high-end F-22, but it does consider it as a marketing contender to the low-end F-35.If the F-15SE can really be nearly as stealthy as the F-35, as Boeing claims, then it might give ammo to those who want to slow or cut the F-35, which has been portrayed as a technologically necessary response to the unstealthiness of the fourth-generation F-15s and F-16s that make up the bulk of USAF fighter squadrons.
The Silence of the Eagles: Brad Jones, Boeing's program manager for F-15 Future Fighters, said in a March 17 interview, that the F-15 Silent Eagle gains an important speed advantage from pulling weapons inside its two new conformal weapon stations and will have a top speed greater than Mach 2.5 in a dash. That is useful for flinging small diameter bombs up to 60 miles away. In addition to carrying AIM-9 and AIM-120 air-to-air missiles internally, the F-15SE can carry 500- and 1,000-pound joint direct attack munitions and the aforementioned SDB inside, he said. Up to four 500-pound JDAMs and up to eight SDBs will fit in total in the two conformal weapon stations. Boeing plans to test the F-15SE late this year or early next, at which time it intends to evaluate the aircraft's radar cross section and actually fire a missile from the new conformal weapons bay. If there's customer interest, development and testing will continue. By the way, the actual aircraft to be used is an Air Force asset leased to Boeing as a technology demonstrator.
Stirring the Tacair Soup: Boeing's new F-15SE design, the Silent Eagle, which the company unveiled on Tuesday in St. Louis, is ostensibly being marketed to current foreign users of the F-15, such as Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and South Korea, which have expressed a desire for stealth capability. But it could also complicate the debate in the US over tacair modernization, which Pentagon officials supposedly were in the final stages of resolving as they worked through the Fiscal 2010 budget process. Boeing doesn't claim the F-15SE is the equal of the high-end F-22, but it does consider it as a marketing contender to the low-end F-35.If the F-15SE can really be nearly as stealthy as the F-35, as Boeing claims, then it might give ammo to those who want to slow or cut the F-35, which has been portrayed as a technologically necessary response to the unstealthiness of the fourth-generation F-15s and F-16s that make up the bulk of USAF fighter squadrons.
The Silence of the Eagles: Brad Jones, Boeing's program manager for F-15 Future Fighters, said in a March 17 interview, that the F-15 Silent Eagle gains an important speed advantage from pulling weapons inside its two new conformal weapon stations and will have a top speed greater than Mach 2.5 in a dash. That is useful for flinging small diameter bombs up to 60 miles away. In addition to carrying AIM-9 and AIM-120 air-to-air missiles internally, the F-15SE can carry 500- and 1,000-pound joint direct attack munitions and the aforementioned SDB inside, he said. Up to four 500-pound JDAMs and up to eight SDBs will fit in total in the two conformal weapon stations. Boeing plans to test the F-15SE late this year or early next, at which time it intends to evaluate the aircraft's radar cross section and actually fire a missile from the new conformal weapons bay. If there's customer interest, development and testing will continue. By the way, the actual aircraft to be used is an Air Force asset leased to Boeing as a technology demonstrator.
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Lockheed comments on 'strap-on-stealth'
From AF Daily Report 19 MAR 09
**A little pre-emptive press
Not Keeping Silent: Boeing's announcement March 17 that it is exploring the concept of a "stealthy" F-15 Silent Eagle model with the same degree of stealthiness as the export-version F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has raised some skeptical eyebrows in the industry. Asked for comment, a Lockheed Martin spokesman said, "The experience of the aerospace community to date is that very low-observable stealth, as possessed by the F-22 and F-35"—both of which Lockheed has the lead in producing—"can be achieved only when it is incorporated into an aircraft's design from the outset." Strap-on measures like "treatments and shapes generally achieve a relatively minor radar signature reduction" when tried with fourth-generation fighters (such as the F-15 and F-16), continued the Lockheed official. Boeing did not disclose how it would reduce the radar signature of the engine fan blades on the Silent Eagle; they are a huge radar reflector. Brad Jones, the company's F-15 Future Fighters program manager, said there are ancillary measures such as fan blade blockers and radar-absorbent treatments of the engine intakes. But, he would not discuss the main solution, saying only, "stealth technology has come a long way" over the last 20 years.
**A little pre-emptive press
Not Keeping Silent: Boeing's announcement March 17 that it is exploring the concept of a "stealthy" F-15 Silent Eagle model with the same degree of stealthiness as the export-version F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has raised some skeptical eyebrows in the industry. Asked for comment, a Lockheed Martin spokesman said, "The experience of the aerospace community to date is that very low-observable stealth, as possessed by the F-22 and F-35"—both of which Lockheed has the lead in producing—"can be achieved only when it is incorporated into an aircraft's design from the outset." Strap-on measures like "treatments and shapes generally achieve a relatively minor radar signature reduction" when tried with fourth-generation fighters (such as the F-15 and F-16), continued the Lockheed official. Boeing did not disclose how it would reduce the radar signature of the engine fan blades on the Silent Eagle; they are a huge radar reflector. Brad Jones, the company's F-15 Future Fighters program manager, said there are ancillary measures such as fan blade blockers and radar-absorbent treatments of the engine intakes. But, he would not discuss the main solution, saying only, "stealth technology has come a long way" over the last 20 years.
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